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<h1 align="center">XGETTEXT</h1>
<a href="#NAME">NAME</a><br>
<a href="#SYNOPSIS">SYNOPSIS</a><br>
<a href="#DESCRIPTION">DESCRIPTION</a><br>
<a href="#AUTHOR">AUTHOR</a><br>
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<h2>NAME
<a name="NAME"></a>
</h2>
<p style="margin-left:11%; margin-top: 1em">xgettext
- extract gettext strings from source</p>
<h2>SYNOPSIS
<a name="SYNOPSIS"></a>
</h2>
<p style="margin-left:11%; margin-top: 1em"><b>xgettext</b>
[<i>OPTION</i>] [<i>INPUTFILE</i>]...</p>
<h2>DESCRIPTION
<a name="DESCRIPTION"></a>
</h2>
<p style="margin-left:11%; margin-top: 1em">Extract
translatable strings from given input files.</p>
<p style="margin-left:11%; margin-top: 1em">Mandatory
arguments to long options are mandatory for short options
too. Similarly for optional arguments.</p>
<p style="margin-left:11%; margin-top: 1em"><b>Input file
location:</b> <br>
INPUTFILE ...</p>
<p style="margin-left:22%;">input files</p>
<p style="margin-left:11%;"><b>-f</b>,
<b>--files-from</b>=<i>FILE</i></p>
<p style="margin-left:22%;">get list of input files from
FILE</p>
<p style="margin-left:11%;"><b>-D</b>,
<b>--directory</b>=<i>DIRECTORY</i></p>
<p style="margin-left:22%;">add DIRECTORY to list for input
files search</p>
<p style="margin-left:11%; margin-top: 1em">If input file
is -, standard input is read.</p>
<p style="margin-left:11%; margin-top: 1em"><b>Output file
location: <br>
-d</b>,
<b>--default-domain</b>=<i>NAME</i></p>
<p style="margin-left:22%;">use NAME.po for output (instead
of messages.po)</p>
<p style="margin-left:11%;"><b>-o</b>,
<b>--output</b>=<i>FILE</i></p>
<p style="margin-left:22%;">write output to specified
file</p>
<p style="margin-left:11%;"><b>-p</b>,
<b>--output-dir</b>=<i>DIR</i></p>
<p style="margin-left:22%;">output files will be placed in
directory DIR</p>
<p style="margin-left:11%; margin-top: 1em">If output file
is -, output is written to standard output.</p>
<p style="margin-left:11%; margin-top: 1em"><b>Choice of
input file language: <br>
-L</b>, <b>--language</b>=<i>NAME</i></p>
<p style="margin-left:22%;">recognise the specified
language (C, C++, ObjectiveC, PO, Shell, Python, Lisp,
EmacsLisp, librep, Scheme, Guile, Smalltalk, Java,
JavaProperties, C#, awk, YCP, Tcl, Perl, PHP, Ruby,
GCC-source, NXStringTable, RST, RSJ, Glade, Lua,
JavaScript, Vala, Desktop)</p>
<p style="margin-left:11%;"><b>-C</b>,
<b>--c</b>++</p>
<p style="margin-left:22%;">shorthand for
<b>--language</b>=<i>C</i>++</p>
<p style="margin-left:11%; margin-top: 1em">By default the
language is guessed depending on the input file name
extension.</p>
<p style="margin-left:11%; margin-top: 1em"><b>Input file
interpretation: <br>
--from-code</b>=<i>NAME</i></p>
<p style="margin-left:22%;">encoding of input files (except
for Python, Tcl, Glade)</p>
<p style="margin-left:11%; margin-top: 1em">By default the
input files are assumed to be in ASCII.</p>
<p style="margin-left:11%; margin-top: 1em"><b>Operation
mode: <br>
-j</b>, <b>--join-existing</b></p>
<p style="margin-left:22%;">join messages with existing
file</p>
<p style="margin-left:11%;"><b>-x</b>,
<b>--exclude-file</b>=<i>FILE</i>.po</p>
<p style="margin-left:22%;">entries from FILE.po are not
extracted</p>
<p style="margin-left:11%;"><b>-cTAG</b>,
<b>--add-comments</b>=<i>TAG</i></p>
<p style="margin-left:22%;">place comment blocks starting
with TAG and preceding keyword lines in output file</p>
<p style="margin-left:11%;"><b>-c</b>,
<b>--add-comments</b></p>
<p style="margin-left:22%;">place all comment blocks
preceding keyword lines in output file</p>
<p style="margin-left:11%;"><b>--check</b>=<i>NAME</i></p>
<p style="margin-left:22%;">perform syntax check on
messages (ellipsis-unicode, space-ellipsis,</p>
<p style="margin-left:22%; margin-top: 1em">quote-unicode,
bullet-unicode)</p>
<p style="margin-left:11%;"><b>--sentence-end</b>=<i>TYPE</i></p>
<p style="margin-left:22%;">type describing the end of
sentence (single-space, which is the default,</p>
<p style="margin-left:22%; margin-top: 1em">or
double-space)</p>
<p style="margin-left:11%; margin-top: 1em"><b>Language
specific options: <br>
-a</b>, <b>--extract-all</b></p>
<p style="margin-left:22%;">extract all strings (only
languages C, C++, ObjectiveC, Shell, Python, Lisp,
EmacsLisp, librep, Scheme, Java, C#, awk, Tcl, Perl, PHP,
GCC-source, Glade, Lua, JavaScript, Vala)</p>
<p style="margin-left:11%;"><b>-kWORD</b>,
<b>--keyword</b>=<i>WORD</i></p>
<p style="margin-left:22%;">look for WORD as an additional
keyword</p>
<p style="margin-left:11%;"><b>-k</b>,
<b>--keyword</b></p>
<p style="margin-left:22%;">do not to use default keywords
(only languages C, C++, ObjectiveC, Shell, Python, Lisp,
EmacsLisp, librep, Scheme, Java, C#, awk, Tcl, Perl, PHP,
GCC-source, Glade, Lua, JavaScript, Vala, Desktop)</p>
<p style="margin-left:11%;"><b>--flag</b>=<i>WORD</i>:ARG:FLAG</p>
<p style="margin-left:22%;">additional flag for strings
inside the argument number ARG of keyword WORD</p>
<p style="margin-left:11%;">(only languages C, C++,
ObjectiveC, Shell,</p>
<p style="margin-left:22%;">Python, Lisp, EmacsLisp,
librep, Scheme, Java, C#, awk, YCP, Tcl, Perl, PHP,
GCC-source, Lua, JavaScript, Vala)</p>
<p style="margin-left:11%;"><b>--tag</b>=<i>WORD</i>:FORMAT</p>
<p style="margin-left:22%;">defines the behaviour of tagged
template literals with tag WORD</p>
<p style="margin-left:22%; margin-top: 1em">(only language
JavaScript)</p>
<p style="margin-left:11%;"><b>-T</b>,
<b>--trigraphs</b></p>
<p style="margin-left:22%;">understand ANSI C trigraphs for
input (deprecated; only languages C, C++, ObjectiveC)</p>
<p style="margin-left:11%;"><b>--its</b>=<i>FILE</i></p>
<p style="margin-left:22%;">apply ITS rules from FILE (only
XML based languages)</p>
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<p><b>--qt</b></p></td>
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<p><b>--kde</b></p></td>
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<p style="margin-left:11%;"><b>--boost</b></p>
<p style="margin-left:22%;">recognize Boost format strings
(only language C++)</p>
<p style="margin-left:11%;"><b>--debug</b></p>
<p style="margin-left:22%;">more detailed formatstring
recognition result</p>
<p style="margin-left:11%; margin-top: 1em"><b>Output
details: <br>
--color</b></p>
<p style="margin-left:22%;">use colors and other text
attributes always</p>
<p style="margin-left:11%;"><b>--color</b>=<i>WHEN</i></p>
<p style="margin-left:22%;">use colors and other text
attributes if WHEN. WHEN may be ’always’,
’never’, ’auto’, or
’html’.</p>
<p style="margin-left:11%;"><b>--style</b>=<i>STYLEFILE</i></p>
<p style="margin-left:22%;">specify CSS style rule file for
<b>--color</b></p>
<p style="margin-left:11%;"><b>-e</b>,
<b>--no-escape</b></p>
<p style="margin-left:22%;">do not use C escapes in output
(default)</p>
<p style="margin-left:11%;"><b>-E</b>,
<b>--escape</b></p>
<p style="margin-left:22%;">use C escapes in output, no
extended chars</p>
<p style="margin-left:11%;"><b>--force-po</b></p>
<p style="margin-left:22%;">write PO file even if empty</p>
<p style="margin-left:11%;"><b>-i</b>,
<b>--indent</b></p>
<p style="margin-left:22%;">write the .po file using
indented style</p>
<p style="margin-left:11%;"><b>--no-location</b></p>
<p style="margin-left:22%;">do not write ’#:
filename:line’ lines</p>
<p style="margin-left:11%;"><b>-n</b>,
<b>--add-location</b></p>
<p style="margin-left:22%;">generate ’#:
filename:line’ lines (default)</p>
<p style="margin-left:11%;"><b>--strict</b></p>
<p style="margin-left:22%;">write out strict Uniforum
conforming .po file</p>
<p style="margin-left:11%;"><b>--properties-output</b></p>
<p style="margin-left:22%;">write out a Java .properties
file</p>
<p style="margin-left:11%;"><b>--stringtable-output</b></p>
<p style="margin-left:22%;">write out a NeXTstep/GNUstep
.strings file</p>
<p style="margin-left:11%;"><b>--itstool</b></p>
<p style="margin-left:22%;">write out itstool comments</p>
<p style="margin-left:11%;"><b>-w</b>,
<b>--width</b>=<i>NUMBER</i></p>
<p style="margin-left:22%;">set output page width</p>
<p style="margin-left:11%;"><b>--no-wrap</b></p>
<p style="margin-left:22%;">do not break long message
lines, longer than the output page width, into several
lines</p>
<p style="margin-left:11%;"><b>-s</b>,
<b>--sort-output</b></p>
<p style="margin-left:22%;">generate sorted output
(deprecated)</p>
<p style="margin-left:11%;"><b>-F</b>,
<b>--sort-by-file</b></p>
<p style="margin-left:22%;">sort output by file
location</p>
<p style="margin-left:11%;"><b>--omit-header</b></p>
<p style="margin-left:22%;">don’t write header with
’msgid ""’ entry</p>
<p style="margin-left:11%;"><b>--copyright-holder</b>=<i>STRING</i></p>
<p style="margin-left:22%;">set copyright holder in
output</p>
<p style="margin-left:11%;"><b>--foreign-user</b></p>
<p style="margin-left:22%;">omit FSF copyright in output
for foreign user</p>
<p style="margin-left:11%;"><b>--package-name</b>=<i>PACKAGE</i></p>
<p style="margin-left:22%;">set package name in output</p>
<p style="margin-left:11%;"><b>--package-version</b>=<i>VERSION</i></p>
<p style="margin-left:22%;">set package version in
output</p>
<p style="margin-left:11%;"><b>--msgid-bugs-address</b>=<i>EMAIL</i>@ADDRESS</p>
<p style="margin-left:22%;">set report address for msgid
bugs</p>
<p style="margin-left:11%;"><b>-m[STRING]</b>,
<b>--msgstr-prefix</b>[=<i>STRING</i>]</p>
<p style="margin-left:22%;">use STRING or "" as
prefix for msgstr values</p>
<p style="margin-left:11%;"><b>-M[STRING]</b>,
<b>--msgstr-suffix</b>[=<i>STRING</i>]</p>
<p style="margin-left:22%;">use STRING or "" as
suffix for msgstr values</p>
<p style="margin-left:11%; margin-top: 1em"><b>Informative
output: <br>
-h</b>, <b>--help</b></p>
<p style="margin-left:22%;">display this help and exit</p>
<p style="margin-left:11%;"><b>-V</b>,
<b>--version</b></p>
<p style="margin-left:22%;">output version information and
exit</p>
<p style="margin-left:11%;"><b>-v</b>,
<b>--verbose</b></p>
<p style="margin-left:22%;">increase verbosity level</p>
<h2>AUTHOR
<a name="AUTHOR"></a>
</h2>
<p style="margin-left:11%; margin-top: 1em">Written by
Ulrich Drepper.</p>
<h2>REPORTING BUGS
<a name="REPORTING BUGS"></a>
</h2>
<p style="margin-left:11%; margin-top: 1em">Report bugs in
the bug tracker at
<https://savannah.gnu.org/projects/gettext> or by
email to <bug-gettext@gnu.org>.</p>
<h2>COPYRIGHT
<a name="COPYRIGHT"></a>
</h2>
<p style="margin-left:11%; margin-top: 1em">Copyright
© 1995-2024 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
License GPLv3+: GNU GPL version 3 or later
<https://gnu.org/licenses/gpl.html> <br>
This is free software: you are free to change and
redistribute it. There is NO WARRANTY, to the extent
permitted by law.</p>
<h2>SEE ALSO
<a name="SEE ALSO"></a>
</h2>
<p style="margin-left:11%; margin-top: 1em">The full
documentation for <b>xgettext</b> is maintained as a Texinfo
manual. If the <b>info</b> and <b>xgettext</b> programs are
properly installed at your site, the command</p>
<p style="margin-left:22%; margin-top: 1em"><b>info
xgettext</b></p>
<p style="margin-left:11%; margin-top: 1em">should give you
access to the complete manual.</p>
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